boxd vs exe.dev

boxd costs $0.047 per vCPU-hour and exe.dev costs $0.0525 per vCPU-hour. boxd runs microVMs. exe.dev runs full VMs.

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boxd

Isolation
MicroVM
Free tier
$30 credit with a payment method
Max session
Not listed

exe.dev

Isolation
Full VM
Free tier
7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Max session
Not listed

What is different

7 fields differ. The rest are the same or not listed.

boxd
exe.dev
vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
exe.dev: Included
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing
boxd: Per second
exe.dev: Bundled machine time
Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
exe.dev: Full VM

Full comparison

18 fields, at each provider's list price

Pricing

vCPU, per hour
boxd: $0.047
exe.dev: $0.0525
RAM, per GiB-hour
boxd: $0.014
exe.dev: Included
Storage
boxd: $0.000096 per GiB-hour
exe.dev: $0.08 per GiB per month of extra disk
Free tier
boxd: $30 credit with a payment method
exe.dev: 7-day trial with a paid ChatGPT subscription
Paid plan from
boxd: Pay as you go
exe.dev: $15 / month
Billing
boxd: Per second
exe.dev: Bundled machine time

Limits

Max session
boxd: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
Idle stop
boxd: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
Largest sandbox
boxd: Not listed
exe.dev: 32 vCPU · 64 GiB
Concurrent sandboxes
boxd: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed

Platform

Isolation
boxd: MicroVM
exe.dev: Full VM
GPU
boxd: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
Snapshots
boxd:
exe.dev: Not listed
Pause and resume
boxd:
exe.dev: Not listed

Developer

SDKs
boxd: TypeScript, Python
exe.dev: Not listed
Integrations
boxd: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed

Trust

License
boxd: Not listed
exe.dev: Not listed
BYOC
boxd: Custom plan
exe.dev: Enterprise plan

Hourly cost

One sandbox running for one hour

boxd
exe.dev
1 vCPU · 2 GiB
boxd: $0.075
exe.dev: $0.053
2 vCPU · 4 GiB
boxd: $0.150
exe.dev: $0.105
4 vCPU · 8 GiB
boxd: $0.300
exe.dev: $0.210

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Which one fits

Based on the fields above

boxd fits when

  • You want to pay only for usage, with no plan fee.
  • You want each sandbox in its own microVM.
  • You need snapshots.
  • You need pause and resume.

exe.dev fits when

  • You want each sandbox to be a full VM.
  • You want the lower list price: $0.105 against $0.150 an hour for 2 vCPU and 4 GiB.

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